Visitor Oyster cards are electronic smartcards that come fully charged with credit. Whether you're making a one-off trip to London or you’re a regular visitor, using an Oyster travel smartcard is the easiest way to travel around the city's public transport network. Simply touch the card on the yellow card reader at the doors when you start and end your journey.

Advantages of a Visitor Oyster Card

A Visitor Oyster card is one of the cheapest ways to pay for single journeys on the bus, Tube, DLR, tram, London Over-ground and most National Rail services in London:

● Save time----your card is ready to use as soon as you arrive in London.

● It's more than 50% cheaper than buying a paper travel card or single tickets with cash.

● There is a daily price cap----once you have reached this limit, you won’t pay any more.

● Enjoy special offers and promotions at leading London restaurants, shops and entertainment venues----plus discounts on the Emirates Air Line cable car and Thames Clippers river buses.

Buy a Visitor Oyster card

Buy a Visitor Oyster card before you visit London and get it delivered to your home address. A card costs ￡3 (non-refundable) plus postage. Order online and arrive with your Oyster in hand! You can also buy a Visitor Oyster card from Gatwick Express ticket offices at Gatwick Airport Station and on board Eurostar trains travelling to London.

Add Credit to Your Visitor Oyster Card

You can choose how much credit to add to your card. If you are visiting London for two days, you can start with ￡20 credit. If you run out of credit, add credit at the following locations:

● Touch screen ticket machines in Tube, DLR, London Over-ground and some National Rail stations.

● Around 4,000 Oyster Ticket Stops found in newsagents and small shops across London.

● TFL Visitor and Travel Information Centers.

● Tube and London Over-ground station ticket offices.

● Emirates Air Line terminals.

1.When can you use your Visitor Oyster Card?

A. After you become a regular visitor.

B. Only when you end your journey.

C. Once you arrive in London.

D. Before you leave home.

2.What can we learn about the Visitor Oyster card?

A. It can reach you before your journey to London.

B. It requires you to pay as much as the daily price cap.

C. It can provide you a 50% discount at a London shop.

D. It can be delivered to your home address free of charge.

3.Where can you add credit to your Visitor Oyster card?

A. On the Internet.

B. At a Tube station ticket office.

C. On Eurostar trains.

D. At Gatwick Express ticket offices.

With around 100 students scheduled to be in that 9:00 am Monday morning lecture, it is no surprise that almost 20 people actually make it to the class and only 10 of them are still awake after the first 15 minutes; it is not even a surprise that most of them are still in their pajama’s(睡衣). Obviously, students are terrible at adjusting their sleep cycles to their daily schedule.

All human beings possess a body clock. Along with other alerting systems, this governs the sleep/wake cycle and is therefore one of the main processes which govern sleep behaviour. Typically, the preferred sleep/wake cycle is delayed in adolescents, which leads to many students not feeling sleepy until much later in the evenings. This typical sleep pattern is usually referred to as the “night owl” schedule of sleep.

This is opposed to the “early bird” schedule, and is a kind of disorder where the individual tends to stay up much past midnight. Such a person has great difficulty in waking up in the mornings. Research suggests that night owls feel most alert and function best in the evenings and at night. Research findings have shown that about 20 percent of people can be classified as “night owls” and only 10 percent can be classified as “early birds” ------ the other 70 percent are in the middle. Although this is clearly not true for all students, for the ones who are true night owls, this gives them an excellent excuse for missing their lectures which unfortunately fall before midday.

1.What does the author stress in Paragraph 1 ?

A. Many students are absent from class.

B. Students are very tired on Monday mornings.

C. Students do not adjust their sleep patterns well.

D. Students are not well prepared for class on Mondays.

2.Which of the following is true according to Paragraph 2?

A . Most students prefer to get up late in the morning.

B. Students don’t sleep well because of alerting systems.

C .One’s body clock governs the sleep/wake cycle independently.

D. Adolescents’ delayed sleep/wake cycle isn’t the preferred pattern.

3.Which of the following is closest in meaning to the underlined word “classified”?

A. Criticized B. Grouped

C. Organized D. Named

4.What does the text mainly talk about?

A. Functions of the body clock.

B. The “night owl” phenomenon.

C. Human beings’ sleep behaviour.

D. The school schedule of “early birds”.

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

（请注意涂卡方式：选E涂A和B, 选F涂A和C， 选 G涂A和D）

Today it is common to see people who walk about with colored wires hanging from their ears wherever they go. They move about in their personal bubbles, sometimes unaware of what’s happening around them. 1. . Outside life is shut out. So are you one of “them”?

For me, walking around in my own personal bubble is perfect. 2. What’s even better, wearing earphones seems to give a signal to people which says: “I’m not available for chatting at the moment!”

Suppose you’re at work and about to make an incredible breakthrough, but a colleague suddenly turns up. At this precise moment, the slightest disturbance would break your concentration. 3. Once again, those wires hanging from your ears would be sure to give that “Go away!” signal.

4. It’s probably part of the growing up stage when they just want to ignore their whole family. While their mothers give them lectures about why they should do their homework, they can just turn up the volume(声音) on their MP3 player, smile, and say “Yes, Mum.” Problem solved.

Pretty soon, not only will we have pretty colored wires hanging from our ears—but also our brains will be directly plugged into some new high-tech instrument. We’ll be in a virtual(虚拟) world, communicating with everyone else, or choosing not to, as we like. In this world, we will all be permanently plugged in. 5. And they are changing our social habits along the way.

In the end, there is a thin line between using technology as a tool for making life better and being a slave to it! It’s so strange—suddenly, I don’t feel like wearing my earphones any more!

A. Listening to music through earphones is the perfect way to ignore such interruptions.

B. I also have wires hanging from my ears.

C. They walk around in their own spaces, with their personal “digital noise reduction systems.”

D. I don’t have to deal with the noise from the environment.

E. After all, I am listening to my favorite music and would rather not be disturbed.

F. Our instruments are changing quickly.

G. In the home situation, teenagers love these wires.

完形填空

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D)中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

As I rushed among the tables, suddenly, a asked if I could mind a child. I was quite ________ but I could tell the man was quite desperate. So I had to make a _____________ with him that if he wanted his son to stay and wait for him, he had to ________ something in the shop．

This was quite ________ for the man to do; I could ________ he was quite poor by the ________ he was dressed. It looked as if he had tried to come in his ________ clothes. But they still looked a bit old and worn out ________ he had often worn them, just to make himself look best. Looking down I could see his________ were also a bit torn and the heels were in a terrible state. I thought he was going for a job interview. In the end he bought a small box of ________ for his little son and seated him down in the corner. I could tell the boy was feeling down and only could ________ with a bit of cheering up．

Seeing that the kid sat there for quite a while, I was a bit ________ as the poor little kid was sitting ________ his own. People watched him and some kids even came over to pick on him. I was ________ to see one of them even knocked his cookies off the table．He quickly went and got them back without saying a word．I was hoping his father would ________ up and come back for his son's ________ .

At closing time, the only person left was the little boy．After a while, the father finally came in with a tiresome look. I ________ he didn't get any job．As they were leaving, I offered the kid a little cake, but the man rejected it. I ________ he felt as if I had just abused him．Of course I didn't mean to．But I could understand why he felt like that．I only wished them good ________ whatever happened．

The man opened the door to leave－father and son hand in hand．

1.A．sound B．voice C．noise D．tune

2.A．pleased B．frightened C．annoyed D．interested

3.A．date B．decision C．promise D．deal

4.A．do B．leave C．buy D．eat

5.A．easy B．hard C．natural D．possible

6.A．tell B．explain C．think D．prove

7.A．manner B．means C．method D．way

8.A．oldest B．poorest C．prettiest D．best

9.A．even though B．as if C．so that D．now that

10.A．socks B．gloves C．shoes D．pants

11.A．cookies B．sweets C．cigarettes D．cakes

12.A．laugh B．do C．speak D．help

13.A．relaxed B．nervous C．satisfied D．worried

14.A．on B．of C．by D．for

15.A．touched B．disappointed C．astonished D．excited

16.A. hurry B．give C．turn D．run

17.A．chance B．benefit C．future D．job

18.A．hoped B．imagined C．doubted D．guessed

19.A．assumed B．clarified C．confused D．ignored

20.A．night B．progress C．luck D．supper

阅读下面材料，在题后空白处填入适当的内容(每空一词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

Ireland，Japan，China scientists share the 2015 Nobel Prize for medicine．William Campbell，Satoshi Omura and Tu Youyou jointly won the prize 1. their work against diseases，the award-giving body said on Monday．

Campbell 2. Ireland and Japanese Omura won half of the prize for a new drug，3. has helped the battle against river blindness，as well as showing 4. (power)effect against other diseases．

The Chinese scientist Tu Youyou also discovered artemisinin(青蒿素)，a drug that has 5. (sharp)reduced the death rates for patien6. (suffer)from malaria(疟疾)．She is also the first Chinese citizen 7. (win)the Nobel Prize for medicine．The prize winning is 8. honor for China’s science cause and traditional Chinese medicine．

“These two9. (discover)provide humankind with a new way to fight these diseases that affect hundreds of millions of people annually．The award for Tu Youyou is the result of a major change in the way China performs scientific research. China 10. (spend)a lot of money on such research over the past years，”a member of the Nobel committee said．

用所给单词正确形式或句意填适当副词、冠词、介词或代词

1.With high technology introduced, the average output of the factory is __________(steady) increasing.

2.I had been working on math for the whole afternoon and the numbers ___________(swim) before my eyes.

3.All kinds of promotion activities were launched, _________(intend) for the New Year Market.

4.Students loans are supposed to provide financial support for the students who would _____________not be able to go to college.

5.We can never expect ____________bluer sky unless we create a less polluted world.

6.The policeman stopped him when he was driving home and accused him ______ speeding.

7.Some hobbies are relaxing; ______________ are creative.

8._____________ is your address?

9.We used to mistake that heavy objects fell faster than light ______________.

10.Health experts believe that even a little exercise is far better than ______________ at all.

短文改错

假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请你修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处错误，每句中最多有两处。错误涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。

增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号()，并在其下面写出该加的词。

删除：把多余的词用斜线(＼)划掉。

修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。

注意：1．每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；

2．只允许修改l0处，多者(从第11处起)不计分。

One year ago, I had a special English lesson hold at the railway station. It was quite different from the regular English classes we were familiar to, for we had no textbooks, no blackboard and no fixed seats.

Gathered at the entrance of the station, we told to collect as much English words and sentence as possible there. Curious and excited, we walked around the station and looked everywhere, search for any information in English. Whenever an English word comes into sight, the class would burst into the cheers as if we had discovered a new world. With the Chinese translation and vividly pictures, we could figure out its meaning with ease.

Now, this unforgettable lesson still encourages me to be an active learner where I go.

________ the heavy rain, we didn’t go for picnic last weekend.

A. In search of B. Because of

C. Instead of D. Ever since

We have put off the meeting till next week, ________ we will be all here.

A. that B. which C. who D. when

When Lily worked as a nurse in the hospital, she experienced a joy in helping people ________ trouble.

A. on B. in C. at D. of